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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Last Friday afternoon, police in Fargo, North Dakota, responded to a report of a car crash at 9th Avenue South and 25th Street South. Fargo Police Chief David Zibolski said it was a “routine traffic accident,” but what happened when they arrived on the scene was anything but routine. A Fargo resident named Mohamad Barakat, 37, opened fire on the officers, killing one and injuring three others. Zibolski said that Barakat attacked the officers “for no known reason,” and authorities have as yet offered no hints as to the shooter’s motive. One of the most obvious possibilities, however, is being steadfastly ignored, as one might expect given today’s media narrative.
A witness said, according to the Associated Press, that Barakat “appeared to have ambushed the officers.” He was standing behind a car that was parked in the parking lot of a bank near the scene of the crash, and he quickly opened fire on the police officers from about twenty feet away. The witness added, “He was holding up the trunk of the car with his arm, and then I see the gun come up, and he set it on his shoulder and just pointed it directly at an officer in front of him. It was like 10 shots right away.”
When Barakat began shooting, the police were busy with the traffic accident and weren’t even looking in his direction, but they quickly began to return fire. Another witness recounted, “I saw them firing at each other, both at once. But soon as the shooter took a break, the cop came walking towards him, letting off round after round. There was already an officer down, and a family hiding just on the other side of the vehicle next to the shooter.”
Zibolski, however, declined to confirm that Barakat had ambushed the officers, saying only, “The investigation into that is still ongoing.” He did reveal, however, that Fargo police had previously dealt with Barakat, although he downplayed these encounters as “not anything significant.”
Above all, Zibolski was puzzled. “The first thing we always want to know in a situation like this is, ‘Why?’” said Zibolski. “Why would somebody do this? What happened?” And he expressed amazement that such an incident could take place in Fargo, North Dakota: “This is an unconscionable act. It’s hard to fathom, it’s unbelievable that something like this would happen in our community. Many of us think this stuff can’t happen. It just happened.”
Yes, it did. And Zibolski added that the FBI had been called in, but given the fact that the feds are now far more interested in finding “domestic terrorists” at school board meetings and Catholic churches than in hunting down actual terrorists, Zibolski may still not get an answer to his question of why someone would do such a thing. FBI agents today would likely not recognize an Islamic jihadist if he stood behind a car and started shooting at them, but Mohamad Barakat may have been one. There is no indication that anyone is looking into this possibility, but it would provide an immediate explanation for the details of the case.
This is because the Islamic State (ISIS) has repeatedly called upon Muslims in the West to attack police officers as well as other authorities. Back in September 2014, the Islamic State exhorted Muslims in the West not to “let this battle pass you by wherever you may be.” It called upon them to “kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.”
Specifically, the jihadis said: “Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves.” The jihadis should take advantage of all opportunities and means to kill: “If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him.”
Now, Mohamad Barakat may have had entirely different reasons for his attack. But the possibility that this was a jihad terror attack in Fargo, North Dakota, cannot be dismissed out of hand, even as authorities appear disinclined even to consider it as a possibility. The FBI and the entire Biden regime have never given any indication that they’re aware that the global jihad continues. Unfortunately, it does.
Only in Fargo would the cops first want to know “Why?” Answer: Because he hates you.
I’m reminded of a cartoon of dinosaurs looking skyward while hoisting placards reading “WELCOME ASTEROIDS”.
Al lease the Killer was shot to death otherwise we would have to pay for his trial but I just wonder what radical Islamic group he belongs to
He belongs to the Ummah, the world-wide population of believers. One interest group with fifty-seven UN seats. Loyalty to Allah and the Ummah supersedes all other loyalties, upon [ as is the usual case in Islam ] pain of death.
He was a conservative honoring the traditional values in pursuit of peace, which is the joy following subjugation of the infidel. All good Muslims desire peace.
It’s called “islam”.
Um . . . Let me be clear. It’s called workplace violence. Nothing to do with muslims.
There’s nothing exceptional about America – it’s full of white people, so we’re rushing in the 3rd world for global equity.
Islam is the religion-of-peace!
So you should reach out & suck up to muslims, the same way I reach across the aisle and suck up to democrats.
Not the Religion of Peace that’s for sure
Mostly peaceful refugees turn up in the darndest places. Thanks, BHO., Jr.
As I said yesterday, we are way beyond the innocence and fun of the film Fargo, aren’t we.
I think I can help out Chief Zibolski with that “why” thing.
Barakat just started shooting at cops for no particular reason. His cult of Mohammad had nothing to do with it.
In a pig’s ass.
Mohamed Barakat was horny. Had a date with 72 virgins. He chose the express way to see them.
Too bad for him they’re probably all big buck demons with flaming Hell dongs.
I prefer to think of them as 72 nuns with rulers.
Yes, he was probably the type to cry like a girl over a rap on his knuckles.
I guess he’s getting those raps now because thankfully, he’s dead.
The very notion of 72 Virgins sounds like a bloody nightmare.
I know, right? Who wants a bunch of eight year olds besides Pedo Joe.
We just finished a beautiful road trip through ND.
Northern prairie; US2, lovely.
We didn’t touch Fargo.
Not hint of the immigrant problem. Thankfully we missed it.
FPM. Two recent articles on Fargo. It read a like twin cities MN. Or eastern MI.
Muslims are fleas. Annoying. Or mosquitoes. The largest killer of people.
WHY is the USA inviting them into our Judeo/Christian Union?
We didn’t invite them. B. Hussein Soetoro Obama Jr, Davis did.
They are barbarians doing what barbarians do.
Where is the Glasov book on Obama I ordered a month ago?????
Fargo brought it on themselves by allowing that loathsome ideology take root in their community. The citizens, not the migrants need to use their right to a peaceful community takes precedence over the hate filled jihadist mindset which colors every aspect of that hateful ideology masquerading as a “religion?”
Jihad has been going on for 1600 years. About time we acknowledged it.
I’m a little surprised no one went for the default “mental illness” trope. That’s usually first out of the gate. No neighbors or relatives coming forth with “he has been acting a little agitated, lately”? The mystery continues.